LIFE UPDATE | Nursery Sneak Peak & Getting Ready For Labour

Eeeek I'm now 2 weeks & 5 days away from my due date and I won't lie, the realisation of 'shit, I have to birth an actual human' has finally hit me.

I say finally, because Ive been so calm about the whole thing up until now. My mums been constantly asking me (aka; checking up on me) how I'm feeling about the whole thing, and has been really surprised when I just don't seem overly fussed. Ask me now though, and I could give you a list of all the things I'm overthinking or worrying about. 

Buuuut, im not going to tell her that. The moment she knows I'm even slightly nervous about it is the moment where i'll no doubt be smothered, and I'm the kind of person who doesn't want anyone close to me to know that I'm nervous about it, I give off this really confident vibe when actually I'm shitting myself haha. Makes no sense because here I am telling all of you via my blog how terrified I am at the fact I have to push a tiny human out of me, the pain, the bloody pain. Anyway, I've gradually begun getting for labour, so making sure I've got everything for my hospital bag, the babies hospital bag, etcetc. Who knew that at the grand age of 21 id be popping into Boots to buy nipple pads, and gigantic pads for my sore vagina?! Not me haha!! 

The bag was delivered today so I can actually get myself sorted ready for the off; like I've already said my due date is only just over 2 weeks away so essentially, baby could appear whenever he bloody well likes, you better believe I'm avoiding Tesco at all costs, imagine my waters breaking down the frozen food isle?!

We also found out last Friday that baby has finally turned, about time too because he was breech the whole way through. Now he's turned though, means he's getting himself into position to be born which again, tells me it could happen any day now. Golly. 

Aside from being overly worried about birthing this tiny human, everything is going smoothly, babies room is ready for the off, & we have hundreds of nappies so hopefully we won't be running out any time soon. Luckily I've bought a pack or two every month which has been so handy, good thinking Soph, I'm full to the brim of knowledge of how to actually care for a baby after that being my full time job for 5 years, so I think we'll do just fine. 

Until then, I have no doubt in my mind that I'll continue to worry about labour and becoming a mum, but hopefully (really, really hopeful here) I'll be a good one. 

We cannot wait to meet our little man. 

Soph,x

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I Moved Out!

*pretends I've been keeping on top of this whole blogging thing and doesn't highlight the fact this is my first post in fucking aaaages*

In all seriousness though, I did go a little awol, sorry about that, being pregnant has been a lot harder than I ever thought it would've been. Ive been pretty poorly with it, non stop sickness, feeling really weak, having low iron levels, baby being the wrong bloody way round. Sigh. Literally feels like everything that could possibly go slightly wrong in a pregnancy has happened to me haha.. however the end is near! I think I have 7 weeks left to go, and I can now officially say I'm having a baby next month, and I am absolutely terrified. Post to follow!

I now know to advise anyone who is heavily pregnant and wants to move house, to just not. Don't do it. Don't put yourself through it haha. I moved house a few weeks ago and it has honestly been exhausting, we've only just got everything how we (aka I, Matt doesn't have a say in these things) want it. Theres a few more bits that need sorting, like curtains?! Who knew curtains were so fucking expensive mind, not me. Shock to the system when I expected decent ones for a tenner. 

It feels like its taken us ages to get settled, which is understandable though because Matt and I have both been working full time still, whilst trying to sort everything out at home. However I've now finally gone on maternity leave!! Which has rolled around SO quickly, cried my eyes out on my last day, but it's meant I've been able to actually clean the house, does this mean I'm an adult now if this is a priority now?! I think so.. eeek.

Anyway, I thought I would share a few pictures of little sections of our living room, more so as a memory for me to look back on.. notice the girly theme going on here.. you honestly wouldn't know Matt lived here haha! 

Little baba's moses basket and heart beat bear!

Hopefully you'll hear regular updates from me soon! If I don't pop early that is!

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It's a Boy!

I had my 20week scan yesterday, whilst there, we discovered we're having a little boy!

we are completely overwhelmed! Not only because this has now made it all real, but because it's a boy! As you probably know, my Granddad died the day before we found out I was pregnant, so to discover we're having a boy literally blew my little mind!

I face timed my dad straight away, who was sunning himself in Dominican Republic, he was pretty over the moon to say the least. A little baby boy!

I cannot wait to finally start buying coloured things haha, you wouldn't believe how hard it is to buy gender neutral- harder than you'd imagine!

But yeah, just a quick little update for you guys, we're so so chuffed!

Soph, xo

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Life Lately | Through Instagram.

I won't lie, Instagram is a big obsession of mine, it's where I post the majority of things Ive been loving, new things Ive purchased, or where I keep you up to date with what's going on in my life. Not that it's ever very interesting.. 

My love for candles had died down a little bit recently as my love for Lush grew even larger haha.. however whilst browsing the Yankee Candle website I came across these 2 beauties. Now that Christmas is well and truly over, the Easter collection has came back into my life. These two smell INSANE, Jelly Bean has to be my favourite as it smells just like calpol, and I used to love calpol more than I should've.. 

Is this not the prettiest brush you ever did see?! This one featured in a previous post, (I Just Bloody LOVE Too Faced) and no word of a lie its the softest brush I own. It looks so pretty on my dressing table, although I haven't brought myself to properly use it yet, which is silly because that's the whole purpose of the product? oops!

Ah, another thing I haven't managed to use. But I think you'll agree with me that it would be incredibly soul destroying to ruin the pretty little butterfly on the lipstick?! The packaging for the Mac Mariah Carey collection was to DIE for, I was very lucky to get my hands on this, and I really don't see me using it any time soon!

Remember I said my love for Lush started to grow recently, here is the current Lush collection of mine. So over the top I don't even wanna think about how much it all costs put together. Lush is my absolute favourite company for bath products, especially bath bombs, Ive tried lots of others but nothing ever compares to Lush. 

Out with the old in with the new.. I love Christmas Yankee Candles but theres nothing like fresh and fruity scents is there? Mandarin Cranberry smells absolutely amazing, as does Riviera Escape, it reminds me of my holiday to Riviera Maya Mexico, I'm so looking forward to spring/summer this year, can you tell?

You know when you make an order, it takes ages to arrive, then when it does you're confused as to why you even have it? Yeah this order turned up recently and my initial reaction was "I don't remember ordering anything?" I opened up the box and sighed haha.. after receiving so much for christmas I really didn't need anymore bath bombs but apparently, I thought I did. I am quite glad I ordered these, as shoot for the stars was a favourite of mine!

& finally, I announced my pregnancy to my family! I had my first scan which was insane, but Christmas day I videod my dad reading a letter telling him he would be a granddad soon, I've popped it on youtube so you can watch it here, Dads Reaction. makes me cry every single time. Love my dad to bits.



Soph
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8 Things No One Tells You About The First Trimester.

If you missed my previous post, hello to you, I'm pregnant. haha, there's that done as bluntly as possible!

As soon as I discovered I was pregnant I knew I would document everything on my blog. Mainly because it's for memories, but also because so many things have happened that I had no idea would happen, because no one talks about it. My pregnancy is already surprising me, a lot. 

1. The Doctors is shite. I turned up to mine, ready to tell them I was pregnant, thinking they would book me an appointment and generally, be quite involved. Nah, completely not what happens. I turned up, told them the news, and was told "ok great what you need to do is ring the hospital and tell them you're pregnant and how far gone in a few weeks time, if anything happens to your baby do let us know, because we often don't hear of these things" right. So basically you aren't involved at all then?

2. Pissing into a thin tube is really quite difficult.  This is something that I've recently discovered, because you have to do a wee sample every.bloody.time you visit a midwife. The pressure of making sure you get it in the tube before all your wee is in the toilet, tough job. haha. 

3. Taking a million tests is normal.  After doing the 6th pregnancy test I began to think I was a bit of a weirdo and taking this a bit too far. But it's normal to worry. Ive also been told you don't need to buy a fancy test that cost you £50 and tells you how far along you are and how many fingers toes eyes and legs it has (joke, obviously) but you really don't. The cheap £2 ones are just as reliable as the rest. 

4. Going for your scan convinced the lady will tell you theres nothing in there. Ah this worried me a lot. Heres loads of tests to tell you I'm pregnant but I'm sure I'm gunna embarrass myself by wasting this ladies time, lets just leave now. I was convinced that id get into the room, lie down, watch the screen and see nothing. This is also really normal too. I wasn't in denial, just scared because there had been no conformation up until this point that I was pregnant, and yknow, how embarrassing if I wasn't. 

5. You'll fall asleep at 8 and miss good TV. This varies, obviously. But I was always up until 11 every night, not tired in the slightest. Pop a little bean in my tummy and my good god I was dead to the world by 8. Gone are the days when I get to watch a good drama on tv. Your body is working harder than it would do if you were at the gym. Just by being led down. 

6. You change as a person, already. Your moods, your lifestyle, your energy, eating habits, all changed. I first noticed that I couldn't see straight when I got up too quickly, that's because my blood pressure is now at an all time low. Also affected by the baby. I don't go out as much as I don't have the energy, and I'm a moody bitch a lot of the time. oops.

7. You cry because a fox got stuck in a drain. Not even that sad really, but me hormones are all over the place so that little fox who was stuck for about 0.05 seconds has broken my heart. 

8. Start buying, Now! A bit of common sense this one, but so handy too. Start buying nappies, wipes, nappy sacks now. Babies can have up to 10 changes a day, so if you're buying in bulk as soon as it's born, well that's a lot of money noticeably gone for something you could've bought gradually months ago. 

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